UMass Memorial Life Flight

UMass Memorial Life Flight is the air ambulance programme of UMass Memorial Health in Worcester, Massachusetts, USA. It is a hospital programme. It flies critically ill and injured patients by helicopter and also offers ground critical care transport. Air Methods Corporation provides the pilots, mechanics and the aircraft.

Services

• Critical care transport by helicopter between hospitals.
• Pre hospital care for people hurt in the community, with flight nurses and paramedics working under the guidance of emergency physicians trained in air medicine.
• Ground critical care transport.

Life Flight is described as an extension of the UMass Memorial adult and pediatric Level I trauma center.

Aircraft and bases

The programme flies from two bases: the flagship UMass Memorial campus in Worcester and Fitchburg Airport. The site says Air Methods supplies the aircraft, pilots and mechanics.

Pilots

The site says Life Flight pilots have special air ambulance training, and many trained with Air Methods.

Coverage area

The service area runs from New Hampshire and Vermont in the north to Connecticut and Rhode Island in the south, and from Boston to Albany, New York. The site says it flies nearly 900 patients a year. It serves patients moved between facilities, people hurt in the community, and people in rural areas.

Facts

• Run by UMass Memorial Health.
• Accredited by CAMTS, according to the site.
• Began in 1982, according to the site.
• Founding member of the North East Air Alliance.